Creative Writing

Creative Writing Week One 1 October 2014

Alice Y. Chang yuyenc@mail.cgu.edu.tw 03-2118800 #5127

Introduction • Reading materials: Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, John Keats, P. B. Shelley, William Blake, and John Donne • Writing Practice: a sonnet, an ode, a short poem, a free verse, and a narrative poem • Course website: http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/creative_writing.htm

Grading policy: • Attendance 36% • Five poems (drafts included) 44% • recitation and other following-up activities 20%

Brainstorming! • What Is “Creative?” (creation, creature, and the like) • What Is “Poetic?” (poem, poet, poetry)  Please jot down some words (ten or twenty words) which you might associate with the adjectives creative and poetic.

creative • artistic, clever, cool, demiurgic, fertile, formative, gifted, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, beautiful, aesthetic, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, satisfying, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful

Poetic • beautiful, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful

Language speaks you! • To build a bridge between you and language. • To construct a way to explore your life. • To approach a felicitous life. • To know yourself. • More . . .

Books in CGU Library • Robert Frost : A Collection of Critical Essays / edited by James M. Cox. • Cox , James M. • The Cambridge companion to Robert Frost / edited by Robert Faggen. • Faggen , Robert. • <<雪晚林邊歇馬>> / 羅伯. 佛洛斯特文 ; 蘇珊. 傑佛斯圖 ; 余光中譯.

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening • Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.

2 • He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

The Road Not TakenRobert Frost • Listen to the poem  http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07030D76 • Read it again and again. • Give your comments or response. • Share your ideas with classmates.

1 • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, • And sorry I could not travel both • And be one traveler, long I stood • And looked down one as far as I could • To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2 • Then took the other, as just as fair, • And having perhaps the better claim, • Because it was grassy and wanted wear; • Though as for that the passing there • Had worn them really about the same,

3 • And both that morning equally lay • In leaves no step had trodden black. • Oh, I kept the first for another day! • Yet knowing how way leads on to way, • I doubted if I should ever come back.

4 • I shall be telling this with a sigh • Somewhere ages and ages hence: • Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– • I took the one less traveled by, • And that has made all the difference.

Choice and Judgment A Thematic Approach

Homework • 1. a picture to show the relationship between image, imagination, imaginative, and magic • 2. Read more by/about Robert Frost • 3. Poetry is sunshine / ____________/ poems are rain-drops, / __________ • 4. edit notes (written in class) • 5. Write the entire poem and find out the poet’s name. . .

Creative Writing